matrilineal

Knowles debunks her reputation as a stage mom, though she carried on her matrilineal penchant for designing and sewing clothes, as the stylist for Destiny’s Child.

It is an amazing story that was too big for the film, of firsthand knowledge that has been passed down in a matrilineal way.

Females are in charge, and rank means everything—a matrilineal system that has fueled the spotted hyena’s rise as the most abundant large carnivore in Africa.

He noted that sperm whales are a matrilineal society, with young males leaving and switching oceans at some point in their lives.

They include matrilineal systems in which the most significant male relative is the mother’s brother and communities where fatherhood is determined by the transfer of cattle to a woman’s family.